Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven months of working in Roxbury, the Dudley St. staff members have probably learned as much as they have taught the people of the community. Their major problem has been simply learning how to organize urban residents of very different backgrounds. Only two of the staff had ever done organizing before; and all were new to the particular problems of Boston. No one even knew why Day had chosen to locate the centers where...
...Heiress polluted by Deborah's guileful malevolence; The Alger Dream of self-made empires gone rotten in her father's diabolic machinations; The Westerner Dream of the loner on the borderlines of society perverted now by the company he must keep; The Dreams of the Con Man, The Urban Gangster, The White Negro (a myth Mailer helped himself to make) all corrupted, immeasureably soiled by the evil of our national life until there are tenable dreams no longer but only the will, and the courage if not the strength to escape to Guatamala or Yucatan...
...University" people on the Committee is Norton Long, a Brandeis professor and a member of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Long heads the special research subcommittee, which will attempt to break down the gross statistics that the committee now possesses. With unemployment figures, for example, Long's group will try to find out how many people were unemployed because of old age, how many because of poor education, how many because of disability, how many because of alcholism...
...Tate. Instead, they propose spending whatever funds are necessary to tunnel the expressway under the area, even though the aboveground one-mile segment as now planned will cost an estimated $35 million. But this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ. Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Chief Edmund Bacon (TIME cover, Nov. 6), who is as much concerned with esthetic values as any other planner alive, defends the elevated highway: "Burying the expressway would cut off the motorist's view of what we are trying to do, to develop Society Hill...
These ten stories steer misfit characters on wildly futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does...